It's almost impossible to level a new character now. What gives, SE?

[Quanta]

I'm leveling up on a fresh character right now

So I'm guessing that you haven't given yourself any handouts then? No money/gear from your main and all that?

Anyways, people seem to be missing the point. This patch essentially brings back the worst part of FFXI by making the prospect of grouping so lucrative--and if it's 40k/hr in a group (mentioned above) vs. 15k/hr solo (what I get killing enemies 1 level lower than me), that's ridiculously lucrative--that you'd have to be a masochist to want to solo, at least at low levels. However, it's even worse this time around since there's no efficient way to look for a party; you're basically confined to Ul'dah (or if you want to REALLY test your luck, you can stand around an aetheryte camp and hope that someone comes along) /shouting yourself hoarse until you hopefully, maybe, possibly, get a response.

I suppose a person could ask their LSmates, assuming that they haven't levelled everything past the low levels already, or would even want to spend time levelling in the worst part of the game when there's a dozen people in LS chat who they can level with in the good parts of the game. Let's see: kill marmots at level 15 with someone, or kill a fire demon with all these other people for phat loot and bitches? Tough choice, amirite?

[Malakhim]

So I'm guessing that you haven't given yourself any handouts then? No money/gear from your main and all that?

I'm on an entirely new server, so straight up new everything. Even new character model and names, and I'm rockin' the solo just fine. Right now I just moved up to dodos and puks and those are going pretty good.

[Molly_Millions]

I'm on an entirely new server, so straight up new everything. Even new character model and names, and I'm rockin' the solo just fine. Right now I just moved up to dodos and puks and those are going pretty good.

Welcome to Fabul

[Malakhim]

Welcome to Fabul

...Fuck I forgot to change my character. I'm on Mysidia now. I actually WAS on Fabul.

I've actually seen you around in Limsa and was going to stalk you around just to be a douche for awhile.

[nasomi]

...Fuck I forgot to change my character. I'm on Mysidia now. I actually WAS on Fabul.

I've actually seen you around in Limsa and was going to stalk you around just to be a douche for awhile.

Welcome to Mysidea! Hit me up if you're shopping for an active social shell.

[Haibel]

Welcome to Mysidea! Hit me up if you're shopping for an active social shell.

HAHAHA... I saw you running around the other night and about died laughing at your character name..

[nasomi]

HAHAHA... I saw you running around the other night and about died laughing at your character name..

You should see my mule ^.~ she's usually right behind me.

[Malakhim]

Welcome to Mysidea! Hit me up if you're shopping for an active social shell.

Will do!

/10char

[Meleena]

Good thing that starting fresh without contacts, money or cross-class abilities and the difficulty of leveling solo in that situation has nothing to do with the ease of paying someone or getting a friend to powerlevel you, despite how many people think "just pay 100k to get pled in the mines" is a solution for a new, gil-less player
remember that power leveling is a byproduct of a system put into place with the intention of developing content around it, Yoshi merely said he was cool with people using it to power level if they wanted to, not that it was a new feature to offset what is a very slow solo progression below 25

Its gonna take like what, 1-2 days before you have a friend to level you?
Whatever, either its easy to level or its not, you ppl make up your minds.

[Jennestia]

So I'm guessing that you haven't given yourself any handouts then? No money/gear from your main and all that?

Anyways, people seem to be missing the point. This patch essentially brings back the worst part of FFXI by making the prospect of grouping so lucrative--

So wait..the worst of part of an MMO is grouping and socalizing? No wonder people get upset by not being able to solo from start to finish.